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In the studio and sweating blood, Broken Teeth is hammering out a new album that will crush like an anvil when it lands at the end of the year. Titled “Viva la Rock Fantastico!” and featuring guest vocals by Canadian rock-n-roll killer, Danko Jones, the album is a fireball of scorching new tracks, including “Exploder,” “Spitting Nails,” “Blackheart” and the spiked-with-tequila title track. As always, Broken Teeth will screech their rock-n-roll sermon to the metal church faithful when “Fantastico” ignites a case of road-hard, white line fever across the U.S.A. and beyond. If you bow at the altar of Rose Tattoo, AC/DC and Rhino Bucket, you’re gonna scream for Broken Teeth!

The weekend-long special to coincide with the release of his latest movie, “H2: Halloween 2”

WHAT:Rob Zombie will celebrate the release of his new movie, H2: Halloween 2, by hosting “Rob Zombie’s Halloween in August,” the weekend-long special featuring horror-themed rock hand-picked by Zombie himself.

Zombie will discuss creating and writing H2: Halloween 2, his thoughts on Michael Myers, his favorite horror movies and scenes, music’s importance to film making and his favorite Halloween costume as a child.

During “Rob Zombie’s Halloween in August,” listeners will also hear music from Zombie’s bands White Zombie and Rob Zombie, as well as Powerman 5000, Deftones, System Of A Down, Korn, Disturbed, Sevendust, Pantera and music from the Halloween soundtracks.

WHERE: Octane, SIRIUS channel 20 and XM channel 48.

WHEN: Friday, August 28 at 9:00 am ET through Monday, August 31 at 3:00 am ET.

MORE: SIRIUS XM’s Octane is an uncensored look into the world of pure hard rock. Listeners will hear Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, Metallica, Rage Against The Machine, System Of A Down, Linkin Park, Chevelle, Shinedown, Sevendust, Mudvayne, Drowning Pool, Staind. P.O.D. and more.

The Bio on Germany’s latest metal band, The New Black describes the band like this: “Just imagine Black Label Society inviting the Nickelback guy over for some Thin Lizzy covers, all dressed up in Pantera shirts.” While this kind of sounds like a hot mess of influences, I am not sure if I could say it any better than that. The music on this CD is a cool mix of classic metal and modern hard rock. It is a step above the majority of the stuff you are hearing on U.S. radio stations today.

The New Black’s singer, Fludid has an almost James Hetfield like growl. His voice has just enough coarseness to make the songs interesting. The music on this CD has a much heavier edge than today’s modern hard rock acts. There is some of that distorted guitar sound that haunts U.S. rock radio, but it is mixed with plenty of solos and a dash of Zakk Wylde style pinch harmonics here and there.

There is a lot of cool music on this disc. It is nearly impossible to listen to “Everlasting”, and not bang your head. Once the guitars kick in, it is practically irresistible. “Why I Burn” almost rips off the Pantera type of groove to start off with, but then settles into a very cool, crunch filled rocker. The New Black dishes out a bunch of Thin Lizzyisms in their music. Obviously, the tunes are heavier here, but you can’t listen to “Coming Home” or “Simplify” and not recognize the similarities of their twin axe attack. With that being said, both songs are really well done, and are a good listen. I love the blues harp intro on “Simplify”.

If there was any song on this disc that could sneak onto U.S. Radio, “More Than A Man” will be the one. This song kind of reminds me of Shinedown on steroids. It is an up tempo tune, with a cool modern rock slant.

Even though “50 Ways To Love Your Live’ is not one of my favorites on this CD, there are some really cool riffs that are worth listening to.

Some of the other highlights are “Ballad of Broken Angels”, “Love is Blue”, and “Drive”.

The more I listen to this CD, the more I like it. I believe The New Black has created one of the better hard rock albums of 2009. Check them out on myspace at this link, or at Reverbnation here. If you like what you hear (and I bet you will), you can download a copy of the song “Everlasting” for free from AFM Records here.